Webinar: NetPositive Sustainability

Gregory Norris, Co-Director of the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE), delivered a webinar on the ideas and methods that are at the center of his life cycle assessment (LCA) practice--NetPositive sustainability.

In NetPositive Sustainability: A Framework for Transformatively Sustainable Products, Companies, and Living, Gregory introduces the concept of a "handprint." Similar to a footprint, which measures negative impacts, handprints measure positive impacts. Gregory discusses how LCA science can expand to include handprints, which would measure how a product, service, or company improves our health and/or environment. When a company's handprint is larger than its footprint, the company becomes NetPositive.

This webinar explores the value of handprints and how they work in the context of LCA. Gregory covers topics including:

Special thanks to EarthShift, who sponsored the Brown Bag Webinar Series and invited Gregory to present. Learn more about EarthShift, a provider of sustainability software, training, and consulting services, and the Webinar Series at www.earthshift.com.